Dave Portnoy has narrowed down his hiring pool.
The Barstool Sports head vowed this week to not hire applicants from Harvard, MIT and Penn after seeing congressional testimony from the colleges’ presidents after they offered excuses and cited free speech amid antisemitic demonstrations on their campuses.
“This video has made me so irate I would like to ensure as many individuals see it as possible,” the 46-year-old wrote on Instagram.
“The Deans of three supposedly prestigious Universities in the USA one way or the other refusing to sentence students calling for the Genocide of Jews on campus. AKA – the murder of all Jews. Newsflash that is asking for the murder of myself, my parents and my entire family. And these ‘leaders’ refuse to sentence this as hate speech on their campuses?
“This isn’t debating whether there needs to be a stop fire or discussing the longer term of Israel and Palestine within the Middle East. This is asking for the MURDER OF ALL JEWS in every single place and these absolute coward school administrators refuse to sentence it.”
He claimed Jewish students are the one minority group that other students “could openly intimidate and chant that they wish to murder a complete group of individuals and never get kicked out immediately or higher yet thrown in jail.”
People chant and hold signs at a rally to support Palestinians at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Oct. 19, 2023. AFP via Getty Images
“At this rate we’re 1 step away from the Ivy Leagues offering courses on how 9/11 was actually the Jews (sic) fault,” the Michigan alumnus wrote.
He went on to say he would not consider hiring applicants who attended any of the three schools until they made leadership changes, and he urged other businesses to do the identical.
“Not that this may make an enormous difference but moving forward I is not going to hire any student who graduates from any of those schools until these Deans step down,” Portnoy wrote, noting he wouldn’t make exceptions for Jewish applicants from the institutions.
Dave Portnoy took a tough line after seeing the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn testify before Congress. EMMY PARK
The 2 former Harvard athletes already on the Barstool Sports staff — former hockey player Sam Bozoian and ex-lacrosse player Francis Ellis — can be “grandfathered in,” he said.
Portnoy’s outrage comes after weeks of high-profile incidents involving pro-Palestinian protests and antisemitic behavior on campus at the colleges, which have led to several donors and business owners pulling their support.
“That is unacceptable on each level,” Portnoy wrote. “I don’t care if you happen to’re Jewish or not either. In the event you know a jew (sic) or simply have a level of basic human decency calling for the murder of a complete group of individuals should outrage you.”
